War material funded by Liberty Bond drive in the United states during World War 1. Naval ships being constructed with factories in the background. View of shipyard and partially completed warship. Biplanes lined up in a field. An aircraft takes off. A massive railroad gun artillery piece pulled by a locomotive on railroad track. Workers seen sittin on the whole length of the massive rail gun barrel, and then climbing down. Children sit near the rail road track. A U.S. Navy battleship of World War I anchored at harbor and a submarine underway at sea.
Lace making process seen in the United States during the industrial revolution in America. A portrait of Henry II who wore lace collars. Women work on a machine in a lace factory. Thread around the machine as women work on it. Men on machine spinning thread. A man works on the thread. A rack full of bobbins being threaded. Large machine looms at work. Curtain or lace being woven out. A design being produced as a loom is operated.
An audience of well-dressed people at railroad construction site watch as an old man drives the final spike to complete a section of railroad in a rugged part of the Western United States. The scene shifts to views from a train inaugurating travel over the new rail line. It passes between rocky walls and through a short tunnel. View from locomotive as it proceeds around a curve, revealing a long line of passenger cars comprising the train.
Colonel Edward Mandell House in the United States. He is the foreign policy advisor of President Woodrow Wilson. The colonel aboard a ship during World War I.
Film opens showing bombs installed in racks under bottom wing of a airplane in World War 1. Glimpse of a Vickers machine gun mounted on the fuselage below the cockpit. Scene shifts to inside the airplane cockpit, where a hand actuates a lever on bomb release mechanism. View from outside as bombs are released sequentially from the underwing racks, where they fall harmlessly a few feet to the ground under the parked airplane. Next, an airplane is seen diving toward the ground and releasing bombs that then explode sequentially on the ground, along the line of flight.
Tractors plow a farm field in the United States. Tractors pull 16 feet wide seed drills. Views of early model powered engine farm tractors.